Re: How to change email "From" field in order receipt

[Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>]

You need to look at the man page for the version of "sendmail" you are
using, if you want to do this from a programming standpoint. This is the
program that sends mail out and has a switch to set the sender.

I can think of 3 ways to so this:
1. some secret minivend construct I don't know
2. somewhere in your config is a Global variable that is called
SendMailLocation, I would think you could set that in either
minivend.cfg or the catalog config, but I don't know. Needless to say,
it gives the full path (including exec name, i.e. "/usr/bin/sendmail")
as I recall. If you were to lookup your sendmail man page and reset that
to "/usr/bin/sendmail -f paco@store.com", it should do that. My version
can use -f as a From header if you are a trusted user. Standard warning
apply.
3. Find where it sends the mail in the minivend libs or executable, and
make the above change there.
4. Write a custom mail-sending Perl script and replace it with sendmail
in the config.

I like # 2 and 4. In fact, I might need to do this later this week. If
you find a good way, let me know. If you can't find a way, wait a little
while and ask me again. I am sure I will have to do it sometime before
this site that I'm working on goes live.



JR wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from "JR" <jr@clara.net>     ******
> 
> Hi all
> 
> My orders are arriving with the email "From:" field as
> "minivend@my.domain.com". I would like to be able to re-define this to be,
> for instance, "sales@my.domain.com" or indeed anything else.
> 
> I know there has been some correspondence about this already, but I can't
> find an answer in the list that works for me, and I wonder if anybody can
> tell me the definitive way of doing this.
> 
> So far as I can see, the emailing of the orders is done by Util.pm, and the
> emailing routine in there doesn't specifically use the "From:" field.
> 
> But it does have "my($to, $subject, $body, $reply, $use_mime,
> @extra_headers) = @_;" Am I right in thinking that @extra_headers COULD
> contain the "From:" field, but if so, how and where would I put the field
> and in which page to make it appear there??? (In receipt.html, report.html,
> checkout.html, or is it somewhere altogether different?)
> 
> I can't presently work out where the send_mail routine in Util.pm actually
> gets any of its fields from, anyway!!! Any help much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jerry Rodwell
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